Sri Lanka's overall score in our business environment rankings improves to 5.69 in 2018-22, from 5.35 in 2013-17. Improvements in infrastructure and technological readiness fully offset a deterioration in the political environment category. The individual scores for policy towards foreign investment and foreign trade and exchange controls also increase in 2018-22 compared with 2013-17. Despite the improvement in the overall score, Sri Lanka falls from 59th to 61st place in our global rankings, while regionally it falls by one place to 14th position, reflecting greater improvements in other countries.